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Road Train Concepts
by Andrew McCaskey
The EU is planning a study on Road Trains
It’s basically a big semi trailer with a “professional driver” , and a series of automobiles drafting danger close behind in a line. Wireless sensors and radar link these autos maintaining precise distances and synchronized speeds while Presumably those drivers are taking a nap or catching up on work online.
It’s sort of a guidance “tractor beam” that, once you join allows the group of vehicles to travel on down the road all controlled by the lead driver. Because the vehicles are so closely spaced in the airflow, fuel savings of 20% are anticipated.
The drivers can relax until they wish to leave the road train, at which point they signal their intention to the driver at the front, and they are free to accelerate out of the trainline to an adjacent lane, and the tractor beam signals the car behind you to take up the slack.
The EU’s study will be entirely focused on the system working with wireless sensors and up to eight vehicles ranging from your everyday family cars to buses and trains. In theory, these vehicles could be mixed and matched in a ‘road train’
Either way, test trials are set to begin in the UK, Spain and Sweden on tracks with public road trials beginning in Spain.
Bet there are an entire generation of lawyers in school right now on this one.. a business opportunity for lawyers.
SARTRE Road Train Concept in EU
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